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#FLAKE DEFINITION PORTABLE#

Recall the flake who shot up the White House with the machinegun?Įlizabeth Edwards Spells Out For Wolf What's Wrong With Ann Coulter Then the thin flake-like brown seeds of the annual Stocks or Gillyflowers one little square of paper holds the white Princess Alice variety, so many thick double spikes of fragrant snow lie hidden in each thin dry flake! Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Thinnest Material Bags the Thickest PrizeĪnd in the black, black silence of the country night, "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake" is deafeningly beautiful. The thin flake of carbon, the duo created in 2004, just as thick as an atom is exceptionally strong and it conducts electricity like copper. What part of ditz, airhead, flake is not being understood?

verb come off in flakes or thin small pieces.

verb cover with flakes or as if with flakes.

verb technical To store an item such as rope in layers.

verb colloquial To prove unreliable or impractical to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

noun informal A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent especially with maintaining a living.

noun archaeology A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

noun A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything a film flock lamina layer scale as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.

noun Australia The meat of the gummy shark.

intransitive verb To separate in flakes to peel or scale off.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun (Paint.) The trisnitrate of bismuth.

noun the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.

noun (Archæol.) a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.

a person who behaves strangely a flaky person.

noun (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

noun A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire a flash.

noun A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything a film flock lamina layer scale.

noun A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

noun (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.

noun A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

noun A sort of flap fastened to a saddle to keep the rider's knee from contact with the horse.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun A platform for drying salted fish a fish-flake.

noun Nautical, a small stage hung over a ship's side, from which to calk or repair any breach.

#FLAKE DEFINITION PORTABLE#

noun A hurdle or portable framework of wicker, boards, or bars, for fencing a fence a paling.To cover with or as with flakes fleck.To form or break into flakes: as, the frost flaked off the plaster.To break or separate in flakes or layers peel or scale off: absolutely or with off.noun Among florists, any variety of carnation in which the petals are marked with stripes of one color upon a white ground.noun A small flat or scale-like particle or fragment of anything a thin fragment a scale: as, a flake of tallow a flake of flint a flake of snow.intransitive verb To come off in flat thin pieces or layers.intransitive verb To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes.intransitive verb To remove a flake or flakes from chip.noun Slang A somewhat eccentric person an oddball.noun Archaeology A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.noun A flat thin piece or layer a chip.

noun A scaffold lowered over the side of a ship to support workers or caulkers.noun A frame or platform for drying fish or produce.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.